Magical imaginations : instrumental aesthetics in the English Renaissance /

Through analyses of texts ranging from sermons and theological treatises to medical tracts and legal documents, Genevieve Guenther sheds new light on magic as a cultural practice in early modern England. She demonstrates that magic was a highly pragmatic, even cynical endeavor infiltrating unexpecte...

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Main Author: Guenther, Genevieve
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
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505 0 |a Conjuration and the defense of poesy -- The demonology of Spenserian discipline -- Why devils came when Faustus called them -- The end of magic: instrumental aesthetics in The Tempest -- Epilogue (Kant's charm). 
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